FORMAT PENDRIVE USING CMD – HOW TO GUIDE

Formatting is a valuable and essential tool when
dealing with any type of storage disk and can help to
solve a lot of errors and headaches. But what do you
do if your USB flash drive needs to be formatted but,
every time you try through the property menus it
comes up with an error, or won’t even recognise the
drive properly at all. Don’t despair because here is
something you can do.
Format pendrive using cmd is a common process that
may need to be undertaken quite frequently, but
unless you have gone through this procedure before it
can be a mine field. The last thing you want is to
finish the process and end up with an unusable
pendrive . Here is a quick step by step guide to Format
pendrive using cmd
STEPS TO FORMAT PENDRIVE USING
CMD
This guide formats your flash drive as FAT32 , to
format as NTFS simply substitute the term in the
command box. FAT32 is the recommended formatting
style by this guide but many do prefer NTFS. Follow
the Below steps to Format an unformatable Pendrive.
Step 1. Turn on computer as normal
Step 2. Once you are in your desktop insert Pendrive
into USB port
Please note: if you know the letters associated with
your disk locations or can use a utility such as disk
part to list this information then skip steps 3 and 4
Step 3. Go into my computer (accessible from the
start menu or desktop) and look down the navigation
panel on the left hand side, this lists down to the
popular and root menu folders and locations on your
computer.
Step 4. Your Pendrive should be listed in one of these
locations, it may be referred to by brand, as portable
storage or something similar. Next to this label will be
a letter,
for example “G: removable storage device ” if the
device does not show up you may need to test the
port to find the letter with another USB device. This
letter needs to be written down or remembered in
order to complete this process.
Step 5. Go to the windows start menu, click start or
the Windows symbol depending on your edition of
Windows, then click run.
Step 6. Type cmd into the run dialog box and click OK,
this is to start the command prompt window from
which you will be able to choose your format style and
name your drive.
Step 7. Then the command prompt window is opened
and you will need to type ” Format G: ”
if you want to Format it as FAT32 then type ” Format
G: /FS: FAT32 ”
Step 8. The G in this instance refers to our example
Pendrive location, instead you would enter the letter
that you remembered or wrote down from the my
computer side panel
After you have typed the above command press enter.
Step 9. Here, you will be asked to press enter again
and then to give a name for your drive. Follow these
prompts then click on enter again.
You have completed the process of Formating
pendrive using cmd; go back into my computer to
check that the formatting has been completed
successfully.